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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth: A Memoir of Place, Solitude, and Friendship

Towler, Katherine

Paperback

Literary FiguresDeath & DyingGeneral Parenting

ISBN10: 1619029103
ISBN13: 9781619029101
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Mar 14 2017
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
This warm and thoughtful tale of mutual aid is a testament to the quiet strength of a community that chose to sustain art and friendship on the margins

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author's friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is as well an elegy for a time and place--the New England seaport city of the early 1990s that has been lost to development and gentrification, capturing the life Robert was able to make in a place rougher around the edges than it is today. It is a meditation on what writing asks of those who practice it and on the nature of solitude in a culture filled with noise and clutter.

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